Self-Respect is a key to individuals happiness. We all seek happiness in life and sometimes that can be a constant struggle. As, humans we all long for recognition and happiness but the question is how do we gain that in today's society? We have to learn how to search the definition of happiness within ourselfs.
Happiness has it's own law and demands to earn self-respect within oneself first. It is a human right for happiness and should not wait for social approval. We are all born different with different characteristics and we use those characteristics to fulfill certain objectives. When we know ourselves, we learn to like ourselves, we obtain good qualities, and we soon realize the supreme manifestation of our soul. We are able to start respecting ourselves we don't need to wait for the respect from anyone else. This helps us grow and gain happiness on our own and without the approval from others.
Self-respect helps bring self awareness. As human beings we develop depending on our own intellectual and moral capabilities and create our own path for success. Self-respect opens our eyes to see out qualities, goals, and our priorities in life. This develops confidence which brings power to motivate us to be successful. The key to individual happiness is to learn to accept ourselves for who we are. We can never cope with being someone who were not. The guilt will haunt you than fulfillment and joy. Self-respect is a very valuable thing to own. This sets an example for others to follow. It is the best advice to treat yourself as your own best friend. You have to believe in yourself that you deserve happiness and fulfillment in order to promote these conditions. You must avoid having a negative mindset and believing that everyones happiness is more important than yours.
A strong, healthy self respect is the foundation of happiness and emotional well being. It will help you through tough times, and inspire you to follow your heart and dreams. Self-respect does not lead you to happiness; it helps create happiness within your own self.
I agree that at least for myself in this day and age, self respect is happiness. I am used to being around people who have no concept of self respect nor can they believe someone who operates from a sense of self respect in that they refuse to lie cheat steal or hurt others to obtain what they want or influence things towards their desired outcomes. That is not to say I am without fault. I just choose to hurt myself rather than others and I try not to get any of my evil on anyone else.
ReplyDeleteAs for happiness, well I see it as a state of being that you find yourself in, that you choose to be in or that you put yourself into through hard work.I spent most of my life unhappiness. I chose to be in enviornments that were lacking for the most part in the fundamentals of physical support. I tries to lend a helping heart (hand) to those around me, but found that one some level we al choose to be where we are. I always thought I could return to a place in my family where I was safe and happy so choosing to help others not only made me happy but I wa able to tolerate their percieved unhappy condition without much unhappiness. I did find however eventually I could not stand the enviornment if I was to maintain my self respect. When I tried to escape all manner of unniceties and demons followed in pursuit and I had to wonder how many of them I was responsible for letting breed over time.
Nowadays I do not tolerate such enviornement and when I let such influences into my life I come down with infirmities, much like the plague. It is death to me, this lack of self respect and I cannot suffer it like I used to. I like to be happy.
I agree that when we accept ourselves for who we are, we are happier. If we do not like ourselves and are always trying to please someone, or be something more acceptable for others, it would bring us down. We would probably always be concentrating on those things that we have to change, or what people don’t like about us. I know there are people out there who live like this and I think it is a negative way of having to go through life.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that being optimistic about things can bring happiness. If you concentrate on the better outcomes or possibilities, most of the time it gives us motivation to do better, or get something completed, but also helps us stay on the brighter side of things which make us happier.
Self respect is very important. If someone does not respect themselves, they are probably not going to push themselves to attain goals. It also does not help with liking yourself for who you are. I agree that it is a struggle especially when you’re younger, though there are older people who think negatively and may not like themselves as well.
I completely agree with you in the idea that happiness is a right we have and therefore do not have to wait for the approval of society. We have to be happy and satisfied with ourselves to reach the level of self respect. I believe most people accomplish this throughout time. It takes everyone some time to truly identify with the person they really are and to find themselves. One must first figure out their personalities and the things that make them comfortable to be happy with themselves. Having respect for yourself will result in you having respect for those around you. I also agree with you when you say that self-respect opens our eyes to our goals, qualities, and our priorities in life. I believe having this in ourselves give us more awareness of the important things around us such as the things we want to accomplish, because to me, self respect mean you truly care for yourself and only want the best. This is a great quality to have and the more is grows the more you grow as a person. This unique quality that every human being has the chance to obtain is amazing and should be taken advantage of. Once you accomplish to obtain self respect everything falls in place properly and you’re on the road to an even bigger and greater level of happiness.
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ReplyDeleteI think you’re on the same boat as Ryan Huerta and me. We believe that self respect does lead to happiness so if you choose self respect then you automatically get happiness. Well its easier said than done. If you strive for self respect and take care of the little things in between that make you happy then you will eventually achieve happiness, but in the end you get these two different concepts embedded into your life. Two for the price of one. Struggle is a part of this game that helps us achieve both, we become self aware with the help of self respect like you said and what we become aware of may make us happy, but at the same time it may not. It may even discourage us from wanting to ever strive for slef respect again, but this is a challenge we are faced with and we have to accomplish it if we ever want to become happy. For me, self respect does lead to happiness and it is created within oneself, if they decide to go through the path to happiness.
I too share the same perspective as you do, and that is that self-respect is the key to an individuals happiness! I mean how you could you expect others to be happy for you and respect you if you do not have self-respect? I think a lot of the time we allow society to put so much pressure on us that we can’t possibly be happy if we are too concerned with pleasing others first. I think finding self-respect and happiness is one of the toughest lessons to learn in life. I know that as a young child I had always admired my mom and how everyone around seemed to love being around her. I never understood while growing up, why it was so hard to be “popular”. I never made the connection until once I graduated high school that you obtain happiness and self-respect from others once you accept and respect yourself first. I think people are drawn to confidence because subconsciously its what we strive for to be happy which then leads to self-respect. You are only confident once you learn to appreciate and accept all of the qualities you posses. I like how you explained that once we obtain self-respect, it opens our eyes to so much more and helps us to accomplish things beyond our means. I really enjoyed this topic and your approach!
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